Improvement in apparatus for burning hydrocarbons



c. 1. EMESQ Apparatus fur Burning Hydrcarbuns. N0.]48,042, PatentedMarch3.1874.

UNITED STATES' PATENT OFFICE.

' CHARLES J. EAMES, oE NEw Yoan, N. Y.

y, IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FORVBURNING HVYD'ROCARBONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 148,042, dated March 3,1.874; application filed Y February 13, 1874.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it hnown that I, CHARLES J. EAMES, of New York city, New York, haveinvented a Hydrocarbon-Burner, of which the following is aspecification:

The nature oi' my invention consists in the construction of a series orcluster of burners on the principle of the argand-burner, with orWithout a wire-gauze covering their points of ignition, and with thehydrocarbon vapor fed in from a common source by means oi' a pipe, andan air-chamber provided with an inletpipe to supply the air consumed bythe burners, for the purpose of making a simple, cheap, and efcienthydrocarbon-vapor burner to generate heat for the various kinds offurnaces, 85e., as will more fully hereinafter be set forth.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I nowproceed to give a more specific description of its construction andoperation.

In the drawings, Figure l is avertical longitudinal section of myinvention, and Fig. 2 is a detail plan view of the same.

A is the air chamber, which is preferably made of cast-iron. Its lengthvaries from several inches to several feet, in conformity with the sizeand number of burners G it is to supply with air. Its cross-section issquare, and, like the length, conforms to the necessities of theburners. B is the vapor pipe or chamber, which is, from preference,generally made of iron pipe, and its length and size varying withthedemands of the burners @,which it is to supply with hydrocarbon vapor.C, the burners, are made of three short tubes, a

b c, placed one within the other, in about the` relation shown in Fig.2, by a plan view. The sectional view, Fig. l, shows that the outsideair-tube a is the widest and shortest, and is secured in an opening(which is circular) in the top plate oi' chamber A; that the vaportube bis withinand somewhat longer than tube a, andis secured in an opening inthe top of the chamber B; and that the inside air-tube c is withintube'b, and long enough to reach from the top of the other tubes whensecured in position" to thebottom of chamberB, through which itcompletely passes, and is suitably fast ened in bottom of chamber B infree communication with the air-chamber A. It will be seen from thisthat these tubes a, b, and c are arranged upon the well-known principleof the argand-burner. When the outside air-tube a is two inches indiameter, the vaportube b ought to be an inch and a half in diameter,and the inside air-tube c half an inch; but these relativeproportionsmaybe more or less varied, as well as their actual size. Theburners C are covered with wire-gauge at their points of ignition, asshown at z in Fig. 1, when it is considered desirable to diffuse thelame of the burners over the surface they are to heat, and which is verynear to them. When the surface the burners are to heat is some distancefrom the tops of the burners, the wire-gauze may be dispensed with.

rlhe number oi' burners C may be as great as desirable, and when it isnecessary to have a large number of them, I prefer to construct severalair-chambers, A, side by side, with a corresponding increase in thenumber of vapor-pipes B and burners C, thus forming a cluster of burnersby a series of rows, each row containing a series of burners. In thisinstance my chambers Amay intercommunicate and be cast in one whole, andpipe B in the chamber A be supplied by one pipe. Both the air and thevapor are regulated by valves, which can be readily adjusted so as tosupply the proper proportion of air and vapor to effect a perfectcombustion, the cock regulating the supply of air being in theinlet-pipe D, and the one regulating the supply of vapor in that part ofthe pipe B outsideof the chamber A.

When the invention has been constructed as described, the air isadmitted through inletpipe D to the air-chamber Awhich it fills, andthence passes up and out of the tubes a and c. The hydrocarbon vapor isadmitted into the pipe B, and Hows up and out of the tube b, when it isignited by any suitable means, and burns in combination with the streamsof air that are flowing from 'the tops of the tubes a and c of theburners C.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Let` ters Patent, is-

2 MSAMQ 1.y The combination of the air-chamber conair-eharnber Asurrounded by a gas-chamber, neeting with a eentrall pipe and an annularB, with the pipes a Z; c. pipe, with a vapor Or gas chamber connectingIn testimony that I claim the foregoing I with an annular pipe placedbetween the two have hereunto set my hand this 13th day of air-pipes, asand lfor the .purpose set forth. February, 1874.

2. A series of nrners each having a gasp pipe surrounding' andsurrounded by an air- (JHARLES J EAMES' pipe, so as to form ahydrocarbon-burner, as Witnesses: set forth. V. C. CLAYTON,

3. The combination and arrangement ofthe A. MOORE.

